(Winner of the 2013 George Pendleton Prize of the Society for History in the Federal Government) The U.S. Senate has fallen on hard times, note Neil MacNeil and Richard Baker. Once known as ...(Read More)

As India's economic and political influence grows, so does the need to negotiate effectively with this emerging world power—and to understand the negotiating culture in which India's bargaining ...(Read More)

The United States Constitution joined the people of 13 disparate colonies in a grand democratic experiment. As the society developed and the nation expanded, demands were made of this four-page ...(Read More)

What did "freedom of the press" really mean to the framers of the First Amendment and their contemporaries? Pulitzer Prize–winning constitutional historian Leonard Levy scrupulously examines that ...(Read More)

When the wartime 1944 presidential election campaign began, Franklin D. Roosevelt had already occupied the White House longer than any other president. Sensing an opportunity, the Republicans and ...(Read More)

Long at the margins of global affairs, the Arctic has become emblematic of some of the most pressing challenges that the world faces in the 21st century, suggests Charles Emmerson, citing energy ...(Read More)

There were two George Kennans, posits history professor Lee Congdon: the first was a diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, a tough political realist who gained fame as the ...(Read More)

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in front of hundreds of witnesses, yet the circumstances of his murder have been hotly debated for decades. The presidential ...(Read More)

Wendell Berry—poet, novelist, essayist, critic, and farmer—is admired by Americans from all walks of life and across the political spectrum. Yet as political theorist Mark Mitchell and political ...(Read More)